Weischütz

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Weischütz
Weischütz coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 17 ″  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 114 m above sea level NN
Area : 3.18 km²
Residents : 176  (Dec 31, 2007)
Population density : 55 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 2009
Postal code : 06632
Area code : 034462

Weischütz is a district of Freyburg (Unstrut) in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Weischütz is located on the left bank of the Unstrut in the Saale-Unstrut-Triasland nature park between Laucha an der Unstrut and Freyburg an der Unstrut.

history

The flint tip from the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic period, as well as the string ceramics discovered several times, point to an early settlement of the flat loess slopes in the lower Unstrut valley. Already around 840 the place name Fizendorpf appears south of the village , a later desolation . Weischütz, on the other hand, was first mentioned as Wischicz on July 26, 1268 . The place name is probably a derivation of the Slavic word for expansion (vysěč).

The shape of the place resembles that of a typical cul-de-sac village , on the south-eastern edge of which the church was built, the oldest bell of which dates from 1325. The nave, on the other hand, was rebuilt in 1804 and the interior was renewed in the first half of the 19th century.

Manor of the estate

In addition to the church, the Weischütz manor was the center of the village. The history of the landowners can be traced back to the 14th century. On the historicizing bay window of the manor there are four coat of arms medallions of the previous owner families, and on the side of the house the alliance coat of arms of the von Thüna and von Wiehe families .

After the estate with its 213 hectares of land was expropriated by the land reform in 1945, several new farms were built east of the church.

From an administrative point of view, Weischütz belonged to the Saxon Office of Freyburg until 1815 and then came to the Merseburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony . During the GDR era, the place was in the Nebra district .

The formerly independent community was incorporated into Freyburg (Unstrut) on July 1, 2009. The last honorary mayor was Sabine Krämer, who was elected on May 6, 2001.

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Entry by Federal President Koehler in the church's guest book

church

The Romanesque church was built around 1200. An exact dating is not available. On the south side of the tower you can clearly see a horizontal wall notch at a height of about three meters. It involves the fitting of a so-called Gaden , a shed roof that served various purposes in the Middle Ages, for example as an emergency shelter for pilgrims.

At the instigation of the superintendent Polycarpus Keil, who was in office in Freyburg at the time, the interior was completely renovated in 1804. In the course of reconstruction work in 1981, the nave and tower were given a new roof. At the same time the west gable of the tower was removed and rebuilt. On December 31, 1981, the new cross was placed on the nave. In 1991, the interior was finally completed in its current form.

The parish has been looked after by the Evangelical Parish Office in Laucha since 1916. The church organ was built in 1861 by the Wilhelm Heerwagen company from Klosterhäseler. The organ has nine registers and has been rebuilt several times over the years. During the First World War, the prospect pipes had to be handed in for armament purposes. Serious structural damage to the building in the 1970s meant that the organ could no longer be played. From 2001 to 2003 the organ builder Christoph Noetzel restored the instrument, so that the service can be accompanied by organ music again today.

The bells were confiscated for war purposes in 1917 (cf. bell cemetery ). At that time Weischütz had a bell made of three bronze bells and a small school bell. On May 23, 1917, the two large bells on the church tower were smashed (one from 1832, diameter 95 cm, one from 1862, diameter 77 cm). The current steel bells were cast by Schilling and Lättermann in Apolda in 1928. The smallest bell of the historical peal survived both world wars because of its antiquity. It has a diameter of 62 cm and is decorated with six medallions. The bell was cast around 1325 and originally had a crown. However, this was damaged during transport to the collection point in Hamburg in 1945 and back after the war. The five large medallions are typical of the Gothic era of the bell. They symbolize the last judgment. The small sixth medallion shows the resurrection of Jesus. The little school bell is missing. The wooden yoke in the north tower window is still there.

The then Federal President Horst Köhler visited the church with his wife in 2008.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009